 ... can be very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into...  The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 9by Sydney Smith - 1844 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Thomas - 1879 - 448 pages
...text, reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind, and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any further !" Yet, I had rather deserve such criticism as that, than the objections which were once alleged... | |
 | James Mason Hoppin - Church group work - 1881 - 842 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any further ? The great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing ; their characteristic is decent... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...reading the trophes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of hU mind ; and so afl'ected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any further ? — S. Smith. EISCOURSE3 -Spoiled. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...text; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page that he is unable to proceed any further.— SIDNEY SMITH. An old Scotch lady was told that her minister used notes, but would not believe... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page that he is unable to proceed any further. — SIDNEY SMITH. An old Scotch lady was told that her minister used notes, but would not... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...text; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind ; and so affected at a precon-certed line and page that he is unable to proceed any further.— SIDNEY SMITH. An old Scotch lady was told that her minister used notes, but would not believe... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 428 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any further ? THEBE is nothing more characteristic than shakes of the hand. I have classified them. There... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind, and so affected at a preconcerted line and page that he is unable to proceed any further !— [ER 18o2.] CONFUTATION OF INFIDEUTY. — It is a very easy thing to talk about the shallow... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1895 - 294 pages
...text ; reading the trophes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind, and so affected at a preconcerted line and page that he is unable to proceed any further.' True, 'it is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully... | |
 | Imaginary conversations - 1900 - 324 pages
...written out, reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind, and so affected at a preconcerted line and page that he is unable to proceed any further ! SENATOR: From the sober incapacity of dull, uninstructed man proceed all the dissensions... | |
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